Storage-battery plate.



F. M. HOLMES.

STORAGE BATTERY PLATE. APPLIOATION FILED Nov.4,1 9os.

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rarnnfr rioa FRANK EL HGLMES, F IKU,XRFGNLLE, MISSOUR, .ASSG-N, BY DIRECT AND MESNE, SSL'GLNMNTS, GF Pikt T0 A. L. LEDBETTER, DE( IYIABINVILLE, MIS- SRL fall V. ECSFELL El? L. El. SNAP?, 0F JASPER CG'UNTY, MISSQUEI.

STGRAG-Ef-BATTERY PLATE.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

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Application i'ledllovem'ber et, 1908. Serial` No. 460,999.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, raamt M. Homme, l

a citizen of the United States, residing at Marionville, in the county of Lawrence, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Storageab -tery Plates; and l do hereby declare the l following to be a full, clear, and exact de- I scription of the invent-ion, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to inalie and Vuse the same. I'

rllhis invention relates to storage batteries and hasspecial reference to a plate or elec- I trede therefor. l The princ";.i object of the invention is to increase the available area of such a plate. l

Another object ot' the invention is to provide an improved lorn'i of plate arranged to l hold the active material or paste in an iml l I l l l l The invention Afurther consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations oit/parts hereinafter t'ully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing-s, and specifically set forth in the claims.

ln the accon'ipanying drawings, like characters ot reference int icate like parts in the several views, ands-Figure l is a side elei 'e lor ot' a plate constructed t l l in accordance with this invention. Fig'. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 91H2 ot' Fig. l. Fig'. 9 3 is a View otono ot' the halt plates before assembling.

rlhe numeral l@ indicates the traine of the plate and this is preferably znade of a sulcient strengthto support the inte 'ior thereof in a rigid manner. This trarne is further provided with a terminal ll et any de j sired fornr Between the sides and top members ot the fran'iclO the plate is tornied l with a number of bars l2 which intersect to form reliculations 13. The. plates thus i formed are preferably half the thickness or" the complete plate. ln each of these reticulations 13 and integrally formed with the bars l2 is a hollow hemisphere 1.4i provided l with a perforation l centrally lated with reference to the reticulations. The concaved suriacex of this hemisphere is arranged so that it lies on the outside off the plate when two otu the half plates thus formed are joined by burning or clamping.4 The plate toi-ined by clamping two of these members tog-ether is then tiled with active material, Y

the material being placed within the spheres before the two halves are joined or is lntroduced through one of Vthe perforations l5 after lsuch joining of thehalves. It is to. he noted that theplate thusformed gives a very large area of active surface in eomparison to the superficial extent of the plate since both the inside and the outside ot' the .pheres are used as well as the grid formed by the bars l2. lt will be noted that pockets for additional active material are provided 6,5

between the corners'of the reticulations and he sphere.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is i l. A storage battery plate comprising an '.10 Y

integral body having -a plurality of ndi- Avidual receptacles for the active material,-

and a plurality ot' intersectingreinforcing bars united with the receptacles and lying between the same, each receptacle being surrounded by sections of the intersecting bars.

2. A storage battery plate comprising,r a plurality of hollow perforated receptacles for active material, and a plurality of intersecting reinforcing bars between which and with which the receptacles ,are connected.

` cach ot' saidxreceptacles being spherical in shape and having such arrangement with respect to the barsas to produce pockets forf portions of their active material between surfaces.' t

ln testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK M.- HOLMES. lWitnesses i WYATT CANNADY, A. A. LINDsnY. 

